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Author : Pamela August Russell
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 26,87 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781402767876
A hysterical collection of bad poetry. It includes such work as: "Tea For Two" ("A Tragedy"); "Nietzsche And The Ice-Cream Truck"; "Capitalism Can Fall Not Like I Fell For You"; "Inappropriately Touched By An Angel"; and, "Love Is Like A Toilet Bowl."
Author : Pamela August Russell
Publisher : Union Square + ORM
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 34,2 MB
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1402776373
“The poems are so deliciously bad that they’re fun . . . it might just be that there’s a little bit of serious poetry play giggling behind the scenes.” —Los Angeles Times Forget Shakespeare. Don’t count on Donne. Shelley and Keats: banished! And there’s absolutely no poet laureate from the golden or any other age. So fawning PhDs in love with little-understood verses by long-dead writers should go elsewhere. This is poetry for the rest of us—bad poetry! Pamela Russell’s unexalted (but thoroughly hysterical) poems mock, chide, accuse, tease, joke, undermine, point, and laugh at the world around us—and at anything that takes itself too seriously. Her non-canonical oeuvre includes: Tea for Two (A Tragedy); Nietzsche and the Ice-Cream Truck; Capitalism Can Fall Not Like I Fell for You; Inappropriately Touched by an Angel; Love Is Like a Toilet Bowl; and many more.
Author : Kathryn Petras
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 47,67 MB
Release : 1997-03-25
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0679776222
Writing very bad poetry requires talent. It helps to have a wooden ear for words, a penchant for sinking into a mire of sentimentality, and an enviable confidence that allows one to write despite absolutely appalling incompetence. The 131 poems collected in this first-of-its-kind anthology are so glaringly awful that they embody a kind of genius. From Fred Emerson Brooks' "The Stuttering Lover" to Matthew Green's "The Spleen" to Georgia Bailey Parrington's misguided "An Elegy to a Dissected Puppy", they mangle meter, run rampant over rhyme, and bludgeon us into insensibility with their grandiosity, anticlimax, and malapropism. Guaranteed to move even the most stoic reader to tears (of laughter), Very Bad Poetry is sure to become a favorite of the poetically inclined (and disinclined).
Author : Lily Luverton
Publisher :
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 12,88 MB
Release : 2021-03-30
Category :
ISBN :
This book will leave you in silence. Whether it be from tears of laughter or from a single recurring thought: "WTF did I just read?", The Worst Poetry Book Ever, is quite literally the worst poetry book ever. I hope you like it! Or hate it!
Author : Hazard Adams
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 16,93 MB
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0295800798
There is something offensive and scandalous about poetry, judging by the number of attacks on it and defenses of it written over the centuries. Poetry, Hazard Adams argues, exists to offend - not through its subject matter but through the challenges it presents to the prevailing view of what language is for. Poetry's main cultural value is its offensiveness; it should be defended as offensive. Adams specifies four poetic offenses - gesture, drama, fiction, and trope - and devotes a chapter to each, ranging across the landscape of traditional literary criticism and exploring the various attitudes toward poetry, including both attacks and defenses, offered by writers from Plato and Aristotle to Sidney, Vico, Blake, Yeats, and Seamus Heaney, among others. "Criticism," Adams writes, "needs renewal in every age to free poetry from the prejudices of that age and the unintended prejudices of even the best critics of the past, to free poetry to perform its provocative, antithetical cultural role." Poetry achieves its cultural value by opposing the binary oppositions - form and content, fact and fiction, reason and emotion - that structure and polarize most understandings of literature and of life. Adams takes a position antithetical to the extremes of both abstract formalism and the politicization of literary content. He concludes with an appreciation of what he calls the double offense of "great bad poetry," poetry so exceptionally bad that it transcends its shortcomings and leads to gaiety. He reminds us that Blake, in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, identified angels with the settled and coercive and assigned the qualities of energy and creativity to his devils. According to Adams, poetry, in its broad and traditional sense of all imaginative writing, may be identified with Blake's devils.
Author : Lili Reinhart
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 32,20 MB
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1250261767
Instant New York Times Bestseller The debut collection of poetry from Lili Reinhart, the actress and outspoken advocate for mental health awareness and body positivity. I seem to be your new favorite novel. One that keeps you up at night, turning my pages. Fingers lingering on me so you don’t lose your place. Swimming Lessons explores the euphoric beginnings of young love, battling anxiety and depression in the face of fame, and the inevitable heartbreak that stems from passion. Relatable yet deeply intimate, provocative yet comforting, bite-sized yet profound, Lili's poems reflect her trademark honesty and unique perspective. Accompanied by striking and evocative illustrations, Swimming Lessons reveals the depths of female experience, and is the work of a storyteller who is coming into her own.
Author : Gabbie Hanna
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 27,39 MB
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1501178334
Comedian Gabbie Hanna brings levity to the twists and turns of modern adulthood in this exhilarating debut collection of illustrated poetry. In poems ranging from the singsong rhythms of children’s verses to a sophisticated confessional style, Gabbie explores what it means to feel like a kid and an adult all at once, revealing her own longings, obsessions, and insecurities along the way. Adultolescence announces the arrival of a brilliant new voice with a magical ability to connect through alienation, cut to the profound with internet slang, and detonate wickedly funny jokes between moments of existential dread. You’ll turn to the last page because you get her, and you’ll return to the first because she gets you.
Author : Ben Lerner
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 30,30 MB
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0865478201
"The novelist and poet Ben Lerner argues that our hatred of poetry is ultimately a sign of its nagging relevance"--
Author : Sarah Kay
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 14,24 MB
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0316386634
A whimsical love letter, a shared promise, a thank you note, and a whispered secret to mothers and daughters everywhere. The perfect gift, B celebrates the bond that exists between a parent and a child. Short, touching, and lovingly illustrated, it is a family tradition waiting to begin.
Author : Sharon R. Leippi
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 29,90 MB
Release : 2019-01-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 198221693X
Got humor? Poetry. Want to smile? Or just laugh a while? Have a chuckle or two? Big Bad Poetry is for you. This epigram poem is an example of shape poetry or visual poetry.